Received an e-mail from Christy Judah and Ken Campbell — they’re coordinating the new Brunswick County Writers Forum, a spinoff of the Brunswick County Arts Council.

The Forum will hold its first session at 2 p.m. Sunday (Jan. 17) at the Brunswick Community College assembly room on Old Ocean Highway. (“It’s the little building … that used to be a church,” according to the message.) Admission is free, excapt for “a smile and a canned-good item to donate to local food banks.”

The group will start off with a panel discussion on “How to Get Started Writing Your Book” — and, perhaps even harder, how to get it published.

Christy, who’s written a number of local histories (http://www.christyjudah.com), says the group will meet quarterly at different locations around Brunswick County, and they’re talking about booking some pretty high-octane authors to come as speakers later on. If you’d like more detail, e-mail the Forum, in care of carolinakennels@2khiway.net.

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This is an emporium for all things literary: occasional book reviews, local book news, items about authors (mostly from the Cape Fear area but occasional visitors) and miscellaneous rants.

The usual author is Ben Steelman, feature writer and book columnist for the Star-News. He’s that shaggy, slightly smelly character you spot lurking in the back aisles of your local bookstore. Physically, he has more than a passing resemblance to Ignatius J. Reilly, hero of John Kennedy Toole’s “A Confederacy of Dunces” — some observers have noted other parallels as well.